LITTLE SENEGAL (DZ/FR/DE 2001. D: Rachid Bouchareb)

Lecture & Film “Black Atlantic Cinema”

Lecture: Boukary Sawadogo (New York)

Lecture: Blackness: Politics and Affect of Kinship in Little Senegal
Little Senegal (2001) by the Algerian French director Rachid Bouchareb brings to the fore Africa’s relation to Black America through intimacy, affect, and a space with fraught history to race and racism. While African Americans face the challenge of double consciousness, Africans who experience the American notion of race for the first time must contend with triple consciousness as Black, African, and immigrant.
Dr. Boukary Sawadogo is Associate Professor of cinema studies and Black Studies in the Department of Media and Communication Arts at the City College of New York – City University of New York (CUNY). He is the author of five books and the founding director of the Harlem African Animation Festival.

Film: LITTLE SENEGAL (DZ/FR/DE 2001. D: Rachid Bouchareb)
After 30 years of work for the Museum of the History of Slavery on the island of Gorée off Dakar, the Senegalese Alloun in Rachid Bouchareb’s LITTLE SENEGAL travels to New York to visit his American relatives whose ancestors were abducted as slaves. “While African Americans face the challenge of double consciousness, Africans who experience the American notion of race for the first time must contend with triple consciousness as Black, African, and immigrant. Who is Black in America? How are narrative and duality in representations deployed to portray complex interpersonal relations among Black people in America?” (Boukary Sawadogo)

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